Katherine Bowie (PhD University of Chicago 1988) is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Professor Bowie previously served as the Center Director from 2001 to 2002. She has conducted extensive research in Thailand for over 30 years. Combining oral histories, participant-observation and interviews with archival sources, her work explores Thai peasant history, political economy, and social movements. Her current research focusses on gender and religion. She teaches courses on cultural anthropology, political anthropology, historical anthropology, Theravada Buddhism and mainland Southeast Asian societies. She has served as a Fulbright Scholar and as an Eisenhower Fellow, both in Thailand. She is Past-President of the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (MCAA) and an active member of the Council of Thai Studies (COTS).
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▪1998. "The Alchemy of Charity: Of Class and Buddhism in Northern Thailand." American Anthropologist. 100/2: 469-481.

▪1997. Rituals of National Loyalty: An Anthropology of the State and the Village Scout Movement in Thailand. New York: Columbia University Press.

▪1996. "Slavery in Nineteenth Century Northern Thailand: Archival Anecdotes and Village Voices." In State Power and Culture in Thailand, E. Paul Durrenberger, eds. Yale University Southeast Asia Monograph #44. Pp. 100-138.

▪1993. "Cloth and the Fabric of Northern Thai Society in the Nineteenth Century: From Peasants in Cotton to Lords in Silks." American Ethnologist, 20/1 (February): 138-158.

▪1992. "Unraveling the Myth of the Subsistence Economy: The Case of Textile Production in Nineteenth Century Northern Thailand." Journal of Asian Studies. 51/4 (November): 797-823.